What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
The beast is not dead.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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